A Systematic Review of Strategies to Promote Successful Reunification and to Reduce Re-entry to Care for Abused, Neglected, and Unruly Children

This article was written by Denise E. Bronson, MSW, Ph.D., Stacey Saunders, MSSA, Mary Beth Holt, MSW, Emily Beck, BSSW, all of which are from the Ohio StateUniversity, College of Social Work. In 2003 the Children's Bureau (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) completed the first Child and Family ServicesReviews which assessed each state's outcomes for children and families served by their child welfare system and monitored the state's ability to deliver services tofamilies. During that review, Ohio was judged to be out of compliance on six outcome measures. Two of these are the . . .